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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 17:41:32 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@....com>, Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@....com>, Johannes Thumshirn <jth@...nel.org>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: iomap write invalidation On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 08:27:54AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:14:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:04:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > > I thought you were going to respin this with EREMCHG changed to ENOTBLK? > > > > > > > > Oh, true. I'll do that ASAP. > > > > > > Michael, could we add this to manpages? > > > > Umm, no. -ENOTBLK is internal - the file systems will retry using > > buffered I/O and the error shall never escape to userspace (or even the > > VFS for that matter). > > It's worth dropping a comment somewhere that ENOTBLK is the desired > "fall back to buffered" errcode, seeing as Dave and I missed that in > XFS... Sounds like a good idea, but what would a good place be?
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